Project Title: Intra-axonal signaling during Schwann cell mediated growth

Project Title: Gα12 Heterotrimeric Subunits and RhoC Activation

Project Title: How do MHC Genes Determine Chemosenory Individuality?

Project Title: Evaluating Anti-Androgen Resistance through In-Vitro Selection

Project Title: Developmental Expression Pattern of Calcium and Integrin Binding Protein 1 (CIB-1)

Project Title: Thermodynamic Transition States in Protein Aggregation

Project Title: Axon Outgrowth on Cells with patterned Gene Expression

Project Title: Evaluation of Complementation Among Mutants of Human Adenylosuccinate Lyase

Project Title: Role of beta2-crystallin in EMT

Honors and Awards: 2nd place Biochemistry and Molecular biology 4 at University of Maryland Baltimore County  9th Annual Undergraduarte Research Symposium Oct 2006, Sigma Xi Second Place oral presentation in Summer 2007 Symposium, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Presentations: Summer 2006 Symposium, UMBC 2006 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Experimental Biology Meetings April 2007, Washington, DC, 2007 Fight for Sight Summer Fellowship. Summer 2007 Symposium,

Fall 2008: PhD Program in Immunology-Washington University

Project Title: Stabilization of Human Adenylosuccinate Lyase

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Blue Hen Chess Club, 2007 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Junior Award, 2007 Stanley Jacob Schechter Award to juinor student in Chemical Engineering with distinction in arts, humanities and/or social sciences, 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Senior Award,  Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Senior Student Award, Tau Beta Phi Chemical Engineering Honor Society.

Presentations: Summer 2006 Symposium, Summer 2007 Symposium,

Fall 2008: Columbia Law School

Project Title: Characterization of a Beta-Bulge Peptide for Use in Tissue Engineering

Project Title:  Synthesis and Characterization of Recombinant Human Bikunin

Project Title: P22 Tailspike Protein Aggregation Behavior

Project Title: Regulation and Expression of ERp57 in HCC.

Presentation: Summer 2006 Symposium, 2007 Barry  M. Goldwater Scholarship, 2007 Richard M. Johnson Jr. Memorial Award to junior biological sciences major., Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Biological Sciences Academic Excellence Award.

Presentation: Summer 2006 Symposium, Summer 2007 Symposium, ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition Experimental Biology Meetings April 2008, San Diego, CA.

Fall: 2008: Masters Degree  Program University of Delaware

Project Title: C4-2B4 IGFBP-2 Knock-down Clones Effect on PCa Metastasis

Project Title: Mathematical Simulations of Dynamic Gene Expression Patterns

Project Title:  Exploration of Non-cuprate Superconductors

Svilen Bobev, Jonathan Hullmann, Thomas Harmening, and Rainer Pottgen (2010) Novel ternary alkaline-earth and rare-earth metal antimonides from gallium or indium flux. Synthesis, structural characterization and ¹²¹Sb and ¹⁵¹Eu Mossbauer spectroscopy of the series A₇Ga₈Sb₈ (A = Sr, Ba, Eu) and Ba₇In₈Sb₈. Dalton Trans., 39: 6049–6055.

Project Title:  Arid2 Protein Regulation of Prox1 Function

Project Title: Dynamics of Networks of Epidemiology

Project Title: Characterization of VSCC auxiliary subunits in MLO-Y4 cells

Project Title:  Effects of Nanoscale Titanium Dioxide on Murine Sperm

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Alpha Lambda Delta First  Year Honor Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Delaware Lacrosse Club, Biology PBL tutor-facilitator, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Presentations: Summer 2006 Symposium, Summer 2007 Symposium,

Fall 2008: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Project Title: A Study of the Extraction of Membrane Proteins

Fall 2009:

Project Title:  Modulation of MUC1 Expression by PPAR

Presentations: Summer 2007 Symposium, 10th Annual Undergraduate Research
Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, Eighth Annual McNair Summer Research Symposium, National McNair Research Conference, First Place Oral Presentation, Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Austin, TX, New England Science Symposium, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2008 Scholars Poster Session, 2008 UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium, ASBMB Poster Competition Experimental Biology 2009, New Orleans,

Project Title:  Validation of a Cleavage Peptide for Use in Gene Delivery

Project Title:  Mutational Analysis of the Linker Region in SV40 Large Tumor Antigen

Project Title:  Roles of ABCA1 and ABCG1 in Cholesterpol Efflux for Adipocytes

Project Title:  Thermodynamic and Structural Transitions of Multi-domain Folding

Project Title: Synthesis of Exaltone and Muscone by Alkyne Metathesis

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Vice President ACS Student Affiliate, Resident Assistant,

Presentation: Summer 2006 Symposium, 71st Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference April 2007 Salisbury University, Summer 2007 Symposium,

Fall 2008: Pharmacy School, University of Maryland College Park.

Project Title:  Genotyping of SMA Fibroblast Cells by Pyrosequencing

Project Title:  Development of a Uniques Estrogen Co-activator Antagonist

Project Title:  Transcriptional Regulation of Perlecan in Prostate Cancer.

Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Tp Clomplex Members of the

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Coordinator ACS Student Affiliate Mentor Program, Undergraduate Honors Program Senior Fellow,

Presentations: Summer 2006 Symposium, Summer 2007 Symposium,

Fall 2008:

Project Title: Design of Endosomolyic Polymers for Controlled DNA Release.

Publication: Millili, P.G., Selekman, J.A., Blocker, K.M., Johnson, D.A., Naik, U.P., and Sullivan, M.O.  (2010) Structural 
and Functional Consequences of Poly(ethylene glycol) Inclusion on DNA Condensation for Gene Delivery, 
Microsc. Res. Tech.  73:  866-877. 

Fall 2008: Graduate School in Chemical Engineering - University of Wisconsin

Project Title:   Dispersal mechanisms and processes of spores of the plant pathogenic fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.

Presentation: Summer 2007 Symposium, Buffalo and Geneseo SUNY Undergraduate Biomathmatics Day, April 18-19, 2008,      

Project Title:  Gene Repair and Cell Cycle in Mammalian Cells

Project Title:  Transmission of CTXPhi among Vibrio cholera and Related Species.

Project Title: Synthesis of Elastin-Mimetic Hybrid Copolymers

Research Mentor: Roberta Colman, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Project Title: Isolation and Characterization of GST pi and JNK

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Delaware African Student Association, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, McNair Scholar, NUCLEUS,

Presentation: Summer 2006 Symposium,  First Place Poster, Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) Nov. 2006, Anaheim, CA, Summer 2007 Symposium, 

Fall 2008: Postbaccaulaureate Research Program, Case Western Reserve